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- 0164 BC Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
- 0235 St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0496 St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1272 Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
- 1620 Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.).
- 1620 The Mayflower reaches Cap Cod
- 1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
- 1783 In Paris, Jean-Franois Piltre de Rozier and Franois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
- 1783 Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
- 1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar
- 1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
- 1791 Colonel Napolon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
- 1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
- 1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
- 1824 Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC
- 1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
- 1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
- 1848 Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded
- 1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter
- 1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
- 1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention
- 1894 Port Arthur massacre: Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- 1902 Hocky broadcaster Foster Hewitt is born
- 1905 Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the massenergy equivalence formula E = mc.
- 1916 Franz Josef of Austria, dies
- 1916 HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.
- 1920 Bloody Sunday during the Anglo-Irish War.
- 1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
- 1927 Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners were allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
- 1929 Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali had his first exhibit
- 1933 US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
- 1935 First ommercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
- 1937 On this day, Howard E. Coffin, who founded the Hudson Motor Company along with Joseph L. Hudson in 1909, died from an accidental gunshot wound at Sea Island Beach in Georgia at the age of 64
- 1941 Juanita Spellini first woman executed in California
- 1941 The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program).
- 1942 Alcan Highway Completed (Road to Alaska)
- 1942 The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway was not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
- 1945 General Motors workers go on strike
- 1946 Harry Truman becomes first US President to travel in a submerged sub
- 1950 A Canadian Troop Train carrying 300 soldiers on their way to Korea cllides head-on with a freight train near Canoe River B.C. 21 die
- 1951 Visitor posting - Alton Victor Elliott Born on this day - USA
- 1952 First US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
- 1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax
- 1953 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.
- 1954 Actress Goldie Hawn is born
- 1956 Don Newcombe of the then Brooklyn Dodgers wins the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award of the National League.
- 1956 Visitor posting - Arnold is born in Montreal's Cathrine Booth Hospital - Canada
- 1958 Visitor posting - Donna Kelly was born - USA
- 1959 Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
- 1959 Max Baer US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49
- 1962 The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
- 1964 Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
- 1964 The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it was the world's longest suspension bridge).
- 1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)
- 1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
- 1968 Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
- 1968 Supremes andTemptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
- 1968 Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage
- 1969 Baseball player Ken Griffey Jr. is born
- 1969 The first ARPANET link was put into service on this day in 1969. The network connected a computer at the University of California at Los Angeles with one at the Stanford Research Institute.
- 1970 Number one hit on UK music charts - Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
- 1970 The rarest of Ford Mustangs--the Boss 351--debuted at the Detroit Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1971 Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
- 1973 18 minute gap found in Watergate Tapes
- 1973 Allan Sherman singer, dies at 48 (Goodbye Muddah, Goodbye Faddah)
- 1974 The Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life in prison for this but subsequently acquitted.
- 1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
- 1977 Minister of Internal Affairs Hon Allan Highet announces that 'the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem "God Save the Queen" and the poem "God Defend New Zealand", written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.
- 1979 The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set alight, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
- 1980 A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
- 1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating
- 1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
- 1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
- 1980 Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe was drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The resulting whirlpool sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.
- 1981 Number one hit on UK music charts - Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
- 1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
- 1984 Visitor posting - Kristy Lynn Oakland is born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- 1985 United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).
- 1986 Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1988 Canadian federal election, 1988 Canadians re-elect the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney after an election campaign fought mainly over the issue of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.
- 1990 Charter of Paris for a New Europe refocusses the efforts of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europeon post-Cold War issues.
- 1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
- 1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris
- 1991 "The Apple of God's Eye", an undercover investigative journalism piece exposing the fund raising practices of American televangelist Robert Tilton, airs on ABC's Primetime Live news magazine show for the first time.
- 1991 Visitor posting - November 21 1991 BriAshi was born
- 1991 Visitor posting - the great Ronnie Smith is born - USA
- 1995 The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialled at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement was formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
- 1995 The Dow Jones closes over 5000 fo rthe first time
- 1995 Toy Story, the first entirely computer-animated movie, was released on this day
- 1996 A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico killed 33.
- 1996 CompuServe announced it would shut down its family-oriented service, WOW!, just eight months after it was launched
- 1998 Visitor posting - The very special Cem Nart Guney was born. - USA
- 2002 NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
- 2002 Visitor posting - Birth of Phoebe Joy Walcoff - USA
- 2004 The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.
- 2004 The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed as a result.
- 2004 The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
- 2005 Visitor posting - Nicole and Deserai 4 ever
- 2009 A gas blast at a coal mine in Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, kills 42 people and traps 66.
- 2009 Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI agree to "seek closer relations" in a meeting in Rome.
- 2009 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown travels to Cumbria to meet victims of the floods that have affected the area.
- 2009 Ireland's Emergency Co-Ordination Committee meets to discuss the flooding. Green Party leader and Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley visits the scene of the worst damage in Cork and describes it as "a once in 800 years event".
- 2009 Italian police arrest two Pakistani nationals suspected of providing logistical support to the group responsible for the attacks in Mumbai in 2008.
- 2009 New research concludes that Homo floresiensis, discovered in 2003, is a distinct species and not a previously known species with dwarfism or microcephaly.
- 2009 President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak says on national television he will not tolerate the "humiliation" of Egyptian nationals abroad following the riots between Algeria and Egypt over a qualifying match for the 2009 World Cup.
- 2009 Protestors gather at the French Embassy in Dublin in a continuation of the dispute with FIFA over the controversial handball incident in the 2009 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between France and Republic of Ireland.
- 2009 Sri Lanka's government announces that Tamil refugees held in camps since the end of the conflict with the Tamil Tigers will be free to leave the camps next month
- 2009 The Netherlands win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Click Clack" by Ralf Mackenbach.
- 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama's job approval rating slips below 50 percent in a daily tracking survey by Gallup poll.
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